Thing 11

I will continue to bring technology into my class by demonstrating the use of it and talking about technology and the new terms (released last month) with my students. I will use my projector to show them sites daily, but I still feel the need to control the content that they view. I will try to make it relevant to their lives.
I am still trying to see the big picture and how it will affect the masses of people using the internet. How are we changing? Are we more polarized because of the internet and how it functions? Are we more in tune with small pieces of information and do we shun more wordy documents. What is the big picture? If lots of brains put together make better decisions than why isn't the internet solving world problems or is it and we don't see it yet. Why does the world seem more polarized and some people appear less informed than before or even miss informed?
I continue to work among many digital immigrants and that affects the movement towards online development. I become frustrated when the conversation ends up at the level of click on this and then click on that. 21st century learning is about solving your own problems!
You can find answers to anything on the internet and just last night I discovered the answer to everything is 42 (you will have to Google it-check Wikipedia under the internet usage). I will not stop learning and I hope to impart that on my students by sharing the things that I am interested in and asking them what they are learning.
Thank-you again for this opportunity and thanks to the other bloggers- I enjoyed reading the posts. I will keep the blogs in my Google reader and hope that everyone will continue their journey.

Fun cupcake survey created to assist my daughter in creating a cupcake blog

Thing 9 look at the last 10 slides if you don't have time everything

Designing for social sharing

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Thing 7 Delicious

I love Delicious and please connect to me so I made add you to my network on Delicious because when I have access to your bookmarks is it like thinking with two brains and if I add many people to my network I am picking many brains in an organized manor. Using the tags enables me to put all of these scattered sites in to an organized and usable format. When I search in Delicious I know that I am getting the sites that are the best of the best because other people have already used them. It is better than Google!! I have the delicious toolbar and I have been using that to add the sites that I visit often. Example: I needed a worksheet quick for Pythagorean; triangles and it was on my Delicious and; when I don't have something in mine I can search other peoples bookmarks and when I like the bookmarks they have I can; look at other bookmarks they have and I can; add them to mine. If a bookmark has a high number next to it I know that it is a popular site.
http://delicious.com/elaineadkins

Here is my bloglines and I am in the process of updating it from the 23 things
also because I put all of your blogs in my google reader which is where I go several times daily and it functions like the bloglines I also made a gadget for my Igoogle to make it easier to check my bloglines if I want to go that route. Elaine Adkins
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

Thing 17 Wiki vs. Blog

In a blog you can comment about (add posts) and in a Wiki you can share with other editors to make a better final product. I personally have used my Wiki for my class to post assignments and interactive sites that I want them to visit in the computer lab. I also have my syllabus posted. I have used my blog just for professional development for myself. I did try to use a Wiki for creating a collaborative newsletter but I found that I did not have all the formatting capabilities that I needed for a great looking product so I used MSN office live workspace. This enabled me to share editing with certain people and use all the formatting capabilities of word 2007.